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<h1>Budget dialog</h1>

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The budget dialog is the main interface to edit, modify and manage your budgets. Please refer to the <a href="02concepts.html#budget">basic concepts</a>
for more explanations on budgets in HomeBank.
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<h2>Dialog call</h2>
This dialog can be called in the following way:
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<li>from the mainwindow-menu: Manage / Budget
<li>from the mainwindow-toolbar.
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<h2>Using budget dialog</h2>

<h3><img src="images/1.png"> Categories list</h3>
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display the list of categories and subcategories of the current wallet.<br>
bold categories signals a budgeted category.
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<h3><img src="images/2.png"> Budget for each month</h3>
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      <td class="wname">is the same</td>
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      category budget will be the same for every month: Jan -> Dec<br>
      you can then fill the amount below
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      <td class="wname">is different</td>
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      category budget will be specific each month<br>
      you can then fill the amount of each needed months
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			<P>Zoom X</P>
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			<P>select the X zoom factor.
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<h3><img src="images/3.png"> Buttons</h3>
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      <td class="wname">Clear</td>
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      clear any budget for the selected category
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      <td class="wname">Import</td>
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      import the budget from a csv file.<br>
      See <a href="06csvformat.html#bud">csv file format</a> for details.
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      <td class="wname">Export</td>
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      export the budget to a csv file.<br>
      See <a href="06csvformat.html#bud">csv file format</a> for details.
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